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3.00 Credits
Maine's special contribution to the American literary scene. Specific authors to be studied are announced each semester this course is offered. The study might be organized in one of the following patterns: Maine poets: Longfellow, Coffin, Snow, Millay and Robinson; Maine novelists: Chase, Jewett, Carroll; Maine men of letters: Longfellow, Snow, Coffin, Day, Roberts, White. Prerequisite: ENG 101 and a 100-level literature course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
An introductory writing course that focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and techniques essential to successful creative writing. It is open to writers and aspiring writers of various levels of ability providing course prerequisites have been met. Genres treated include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. While much of the course consists of a workshop format, lectures and class discussions cover such topics as sentence effectiveness, writer's block, dynamics of language, metaphor, meter, characterization, plotting, dialogue, narrative point of view, scene construction, revision, and publication. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of B- or better, or permission of instructor. Offered pass/fail or for a letter grade at the option of the instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
A course designed generally but not exclusively for non-English majors, focusing on a topic of the instructor's choosing and using literature and non-fiction as the documents for class discussion. The course may be repeated since the topics vary (e.g. fantasy, the occult, women writers, African-American literature). Prerequisite: ENG 101 and a one 100-level literature course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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A course that encourages extensive reading, discussing, enjoyment, and appreciation of books, periodicals and other literature for young people. Students are assisted in developing and using criteria for evaluating children's literature. Characteristics of various genres are discussed. In addition, some attention is given to oral storytelling, history, and other aspects that vary according to the interests and abilities of the particular class. This course is required for all elementary school education majors and is suggested as an elective for English majors and others who are interested in literature or who work with children. Prerequisite: ENG 101 and a 100-level literature course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
This course involves an examination of cultural differences and transformations as seen through the lens of world literature's traditional canon. Students gain exposure to major writers of cultures and time periods other than their own, and analyze a variety of world literature masterpieces to determine how and why such works transcend their particular time and place. A variety of world views is examined, focusing on such themes as creation, death, love, heroes, and humor. Prerequisite: ENG 101 and a 100-level literature course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
Designed to explore the needs and interests of adolescent readers, this course addresses the characteristics of young adult readers and the methodology of book selection for them. Focused on the enjoyment of reading for young adults, the course emphasizes familiarity with a wide body of adolescent literature, approaches to and bibliographic resources for its study, and methods for individualizing reading. Prerequisites. ENG 101 or permission of the instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity to study poetry through the dual processes of observation and imitation, to understand how specific writing techniques produce effective poetry. Students are encouraged to study and duplicate-within the context of their own individual writing styles-the techniques employed by successful poets. Aspects of both a literature course and writing course are thus combined in pursuit of a pragmatic working knowledge of the techniques of poetry. Students will critically examine and then experiment for themselves with various forms of poetry, writing and revising both critical essays and poetry, reading and sharing their work in small writing workshop groups. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with grade of B- or better, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
A survey course in contemporary fiction. This course focuses on literary works primarily as products of the writing process. Rather than interpreting stories or analyzing them with regard to a cultural milieu, the class will treat them as case studies for technique. The artists whose works have been selected for this course are generally innovators-that is, writers exploring the boundaries of traditional narrative, in both form and style. While the course is intended principally for students who are themselves interested in writing fiction, any student of literature may find such an approach useful and interesting. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with grade of B- or better, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
Creative nonfiction is a genre defined by what it is not. It differs from other forms of nonfiction by possessing both an apparent subject and a deeper meaning, by its freedom from the usual journalistic requirements of timeliness and urgency, by taking advantage of such narrative devices as character, plot and dialogue, by its sense of reflection and finished thought, and by its serious attention to the craft of writing and aesthetic sensibility that goes well beyond the journalistic "inverted pyramid" style. This course provides the opportunity to study creative nonfiction through the dual processes of observation and imitation, to understand how specific writing techniques produce effective literature. Students are encouraged to study and duplicate-within the context of their own individual writing styles-the techniques employed successfully by published writers of creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with grade of B- or better, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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3.00 Credits
This course will be an overview of and practicum for students who wish to study and produce periodical literature. The course will survey broadly a variety of periodicals both in terms of subject and of time, with the emphasis being on the small-scale periodical, especially the literary magazine. Prerequisite: ENG 101; ART 101 or ART 102, 100-level literature course; WRI 211; or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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